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i’m thinking of moving to Jamaica Plain

hollywood actors…

… seem to have a very low tolerance to being bumped on the head. they all fall down and remain unconscious until the writer works past the cliché.

riding with rodney ellis

dorothy called just before lunch and invited me to come on a ride with texas senator Rodney Ellis.



the five of us started at back bay bicycles and took mem dr out to fresh pond, around the pond, and back through harvard. he said he enjoyed my tunes. it was pretty cool blasting madonna’s holiday through central, weaving through traffic with them all.

chopper groove

i finished my new stereobox a few days back. it’s virgin flight on a scul mission was mostly successful. it only took a while to figure out that the cause of the amps cutting out was due to poor wireless transmission. … so i hung the transmitter out of my bag, over my shoulder. it’s great now. i’m surprised that these new amps don’t need a heat sink since they’re much for powerful than the previous radiobox that did need a heat sink. i consider making the old radiobox (pic, another pic) was one of the best things i’ve ever done. … you just can’t be upset or unhappy while riding around on your bike with your tunes blaring causing people to randomly sing and dance in the street.

components:

• Pelican 1430 housing | bearproof
• mb quart nka 169 6″x9″ marine speakers | made to withstand sun and saltwater
• amphony 1550 50w wireless monoblock amplifiers | class T, efficient and precise
• two 12v lead acid batteries wired in-line for 24v for the amps plus one more 12v for the transmitter | heavier than your mom but should keep this stereo playing at high volume for days
• iriver h320 audio source | has an fm receiver built in so i can pick up skunk’s transmission on scul missions

to do:

• add ac input jack for internal charger
• try different audio absorption materials to tune resonance
• possibly replace lead acid batteries with li-ion. it’s really heavy.

it’s my birthday and i’m switching to a new blog

goodbye livejournal. i found a new toy that has more flexible feeds and style. i’ll visit my lj friends and communities via my reader. this crossposting script will publish my posts to lj, but i’m forcing comments to come here. i suggest that everyone should get an openid for many reasons, one of which is to be able to comment here. livejournal users already have an openid, or you can get yours from a server on this list. i use myopenid.com.

-dillweed